Improvement in medical compounds



UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES ADAMSON, OF PRAIRIE CITY, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,251, dated March 2, 1875; application filed July 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. ADAMSON, of Prairie Gity,in the county of Jasper and State of Iowa, have in vented a Medicinal Compound, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to furnish a safe and simple remedy for liver complaints, ague, and similar diseases.

It consists in compounding prickly ash, rhubarb, wahoo, poplar-bark, and whisky, as hereinafter fully set forth.

The most simple and convenient manner of preparing my compound is to take a six-ounce (6 oz.) vial and fill it by putting in a half-ounce (1} oz.) of extract of prickly-ash, (Xanthoxylmn ahalf-ounce oz.) of extract of rhubarb a half-ounce g oz.) of extract of Wahoo, (In-' dian arrow-root a half-ounce oz.) of extract of poplar-bark, (Waving ash and four (4 oz.) ounces of good pure whisky.

A table-spoonful of this mixture taken by an adult half an hour before meals will act as JAMES M. ADAMSON.

Witnesses:

W. G. HAWK, D. M. BARTLETT. 

